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- The ticking bomb scenario operates by manipulating the emotional reactions of the audience. It creates a context of fear and anger. It artificially tilts the circumstances to evoke sympathy or even admiration for the torturer, and hatred or indifference towards the torture victim.
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Aug 3, 2007 · The problems of torture can be illustrated with the 'ticking bomb' scenario: is it acceptable to torture someone if it results in saving thousands of lives?
The ticking time bomb scenario is a thought experiment that has been used in the ethics debate over whether interrogational torture can ever be justified. The scenario can be formulated as follows:
The ticking bomb scenario operates by manipulating the emotional reactions of the audience. It creates a context of fear and anger. It artificially tilts the circumstances to evoke sympathy or even admiration for the torturer, and hatred or indifference towards the torture victim. Its dramatic
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Jan 2, 2015 · Also known as the “ticking bomb” argument, this discourse juxtaposes a lesser moral evil, say torturing a terrorist with information about a quickly unfolding plot, to a greater moral evil,...
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Torture & Ticking Bombs. Edward Hall is sceptical about this infamous ethical example’s usefulness. Philosophers love thought experiments, and few have been as influential in contemporary moral and political philosophy as ‘the ticking bomb’.
Dec 10, 2014 · The new Senate Intelligence Committee report describes how the ticking time bomb scenario was in fact used by the CIA to defend its use of torture or "enhanced interrogation".
Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke place the ticking bomb in a plane: A terrorist network has activated a large bomb on one of hundreds of commercial planes carrying over three hundred passengers that is flying somewhere in the world at any point in time. The bomb is set to explode in thirty minutes.